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Re: 10x20 green baseplates
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Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:52:55 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <37ca5bd8.72028733@lugnet.com>...
> In lugnet.general, Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> writes:
> > [...]
> > An interesting side note about the Type 2 baseplates is that Samsonite • made
> > some 10x10 sized baseplates without any ridges within the underside. • These
> > were used primarily for box tops! The early Samsonite sets 702 and 703, • which
> > were in tall square boxes (similar dimentions as a USA quart size milk
> > carton). The top of these sets consisted of one of these 10x10 plates • (always
> > in red!). When I browse eBay, I often notify sellers of the 702 and 703 • sets
> > that the "missing" box top is actually one of these 10x10 baseplates. • They
> > usually find it, and include it as part of the set. In the late 1960's • and
> > early 1970's the Samsonite service packs were square boxes that had one • of
> > these baseplates as the bottom of the box. Unlike the earlier 702 and • 703 sets
> > (which only had the red baseplate), these service packs seemed to have • these
> > plates in many different colors. I have examples in grey, yellow and • yes -
> > even in black. But I have not been able to locate them in white or blue.
>
> Black! Wow -- that is wild indeed! So they were as boxtops! Ahh, now • that
> explains the goofy mold shape. I think the gray one (10x10) with the
> super-thin perimeter on the bottom is the exact type I cut my foot on as a
> child: the edge just snapped because it was so flimsy. Still have it in
> the old family LEGO box at my parents' home. But at the time I felt like
> burning it. :-)
>
>
> > [...]
> > Other "thick" baseplates were produced in recent years. 4x12 and 8x16
> > baseplates in various colors have been found. Other sizes may be • available as
> > well.
>
> I've seen them recently in FreeStyle and Castle in the sizes of 4x6, 4x10,
> 4x12, 8x8, 8x16, and 12x24. Belville also had a quarter-disc version
> measuring 12x12 (basically a square with one rounded corner, like a huge
> slice of a pie) and a counterpart measuring 24x24 with a quarter-disc
> removed (so that it, plus the 12x12 quarter-disc, made a full 24x24 • square).
> The Belville ones came in pastel Belville colors: yellow, green, purple,
> and possibly others.
>
> Because of the tube configuration on the bottom, BTW, it could be said that
> all of these new thick baseplates aren't actually baseplates anymore but
> rather that they're actually *bricks*! :-) Especially with the smaller
> ones -- the 4x6 element can hardly be thought of as a baseplate, for
> example, because it's identical to a 2x6 brick on the bottom, except for • the
> dimensions. The 4x10 element and 4x12 elements are also just like wider
> versions of 2x10 and 2x12 bricks, although I don't think I've never seen a
> 2x12 brick.
>
> At what size these bricks cease to become bricks and start becoming
> baseplates is an interesting debate. I figure the transition is fuzzy
> rather than well-defined: it might be said that an 8x8 brick is 20%
> baseplate and 80% brick, or an 8x16 brick is 40% baseplate and 60% brick, • or
> a 12x24 brick is 80% baseplate and 20% brick. :-)
>
> Oddly, there is no 4x4 brick yet (as far as I'm aware), but -- get this --
> back in the 50's and 60's, there were 4x4 L-shaped bricks!
>
> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=417-1
> http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=217-2
Cool! Todd, thanks for pointing out a brick I had not seen before! And I
thought I'd seen them all (well, not really).
PS - sorry about your foot - hope its better by now.
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Have fun!
John
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> I guess those went the way of the dodo when 2xN walls on buildings were
> replaced by 1xN walls in featured models. I'm pretty happy to see that 4x4
> L-shaped plates have popped up recently in the past couple of years, • though!
> Maybe the 4x4 L-shaped brick will return someday! :-)
>
> --Todd
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